Thursday, November 14, 2013

At the last second, I decided to sign up to do the Christmas Simple Treasures Craft Boutique. I sold a lot of pillows and a couple of Thanksgiving pallets, but tragically I didn't sell any of my wood crafts. But that's ok, because now I don't have to remake stuff to decorate my house for Christmas...

I have a couple of tutorials coming, so stay tuned for that. You can purchase the pillows in my etsy shop.

Here is the "BOO" all put together. I don't have pictures for the next couple of steps... Paint your letters black. Next, use THIS tutorial from my #31 post and stamp each letter in glitter. Let the letters sit for ten minutes, then spray with some glossy clearcoat spray. This will protect the glitter.

Monday, September 30, 2013

To cut the notch out of the spine of the "3", we first traced where we wanted the notch...

Then, using a band saw we cut the notch out.

Next, assemble the "3" and "1" by nailing the pieces together.

Before you paint, be sure to sand the numbers. Now the "31" is ready to paint.

After the paint is dry, distress the numbers, then rub stain all over the numbers and wipe it off with some paper towel.

How to glitter the bat:

My bat it cut out of thin MDF. First thing you need to do is paint the bat black. While the bat is drying, grab a piece of paper and dump some glitter in a pile in the middle of the paper. Once the bat is dry, paint the front again.

After you paint the front of the bat, immediately stamp it in the glitter.

Before I do the next step, I sprayed the bat with glossy clear coat spray and let it dry. Once it has sat for about ten minutes, I drilled two little holes in the middle of the bat.